Brit-Am Ephraimite Forum no. 54
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Date: 22/April/08 22th Nissan 5768
Contents:
1. Informative Lecture on Homosexuality
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
10.52
3. Russ Curenton:
Harry Potter - an anti-Semite?
4. Food Shortages:
(a) Doomsday Afficianado
but worth Reading
(b) Michael Burkert:
PLAN NOW FOR THE COMING SHORTAGE OF FOOD
5. Early Vikings in Ireland preceded by Anglo-Saxons
1. Informative Lecture on Homosexuality
From: Eliezer <abrams32@telus.net>
Homosexuality 101
http://www.homosexuality101.com/
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
10.52
From: David Meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 10.52 April 20, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They've put a face on a mummy in the Berkshire Museum:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_8969010?source=most_emailed
Some Western Wall stones are in danger of crumbling:
http://tinyurl.com/5yrx9m
(JPost)
More coverage of that 'accord' between Israeli and Palestinian
archaeologists:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/976273.html
Tourism is booming in Syria:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7346100.stm
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we've had this druid burial before:
http://tinyurl.com/6fomq3
(Independent)
They're wrapping up the dig at Stonehenge:
http://tinyurl.com/579vqz
(CTV)
What we're learning from medieval cod bones:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/
court_and_social/article3738383.ece
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Dental work on homo floresiensis may cause some questioning of
the antiquity of the 'hobbit' (or not):
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=flores-hobbit-root-canal
More coverage of that 'burial cave' in the Philippines:
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/gen/2008/04/18/
news/ancient.artifacts.found.in.cave.html
http://mindanao.com/blog/?p=3611
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A bit out of our date range, but folks might like this collection
of photos etc. from the 1908 Olympics:
http://tinyurl.com/69oc76
(DM)
With the Indiana Jones movie on the way, I suspect we'll be reading
a lot about crystals skulls and their (in)authenticity:
http://afp.google.com/article/
ALeqM5i0MtZtshBPW5OUhodfTDezFkR5_Q
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/
news/2008/04/19/wskull119.xml
... and no doubt we'll read more about the 'prophecies' of the
Mayan calendar:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/15/2217547.htm
'Earthquake' archaeology:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/17/earthquake-archaeology.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/
2008/04/080416174634.htm
How epidemics shape cities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15chol.html
Old(est?) photos and the problems of dating them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/arts/design/17phot.html
Recreating Jefferson's library:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004241.html
Interesting item on endowment funds:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/education/13endow.html
Some Kabbalah history in this one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13kabbalah-t.html
The Odyssey Marine saga is beginning to get confusing:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/
idUSN1832990720080418
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Pergamum:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/
detaylar.do?load=detay&link=139115&bolum=117
Rome:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/travel/20rome.html
Alabama:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/
travel/escapes/18alabama.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
Hopkins in Egypt Today:
http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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CRIME BEAT
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... and the restitution to be paid by that family of forgers:
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/
Payback-time-for-trio-in.3996165.jp
A number of historic synagogues in Tehran have been demolished:
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=1.0.2075294012
An update on the Oded Golan trial:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/974483.html
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A teacher has found a box full of old coins in Russia:
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080414/105021944.html
A Princeton numismatist has received a Guggenheim:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/09/20801/
Trying to get a Trafalgar medal:
http://tinyurl.com/6mt5gz
1794 Large Cents:
http://www.1794largecents.com/1794/index.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Babylon/Iraq:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/,br>0,,2273427,00.html
Homer's Influence:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/
ALeqM5ikZNXHZh5CiEcuOfqqn9BwkZCD4g
Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/design/18wove.html
The Nevada Historical Society has acquired a nice collection:
http://www.newsreview.com/reno/Content?oid=651193
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Ruins found in Antarctica:
http://www.lauralee.com/news/kadath.htm
... and the Severn Boat is said to have crossed the Atlantic:
http://www.lauralee.com/news/severnboat.htm
This (spoof) touches on a number of items in today's Explorator:
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i33977
3. Russ
Curenton:
Harry Potter - an anti-Semite?
Shalom Yair,
Are you familiar with the Harry Potter movies?
I THOUGHT I WAS, until this weekend when I watched all five of them in a row,
for lack of anything better to do...
In the first movie, these little "goblins", short, evil little creatures who
dominate banking and have a Magen David in the foyer of their "Gringott's Bank"
(on the floor) are a not-so-veiled slap against Hebrews.
Next, the movies slap against people like me, in that the thrust of the whole
series is that people who believe in keeping a people free from mixing their
bloodlines with others are EVIL...by the way, there are more than a few Hebrews
who do not hold with this idea of Hebrews marrying / having babies with
non-Hebrews...
Without naming them (the Royal Family), the practice of choosing a King or Queen
from among a certain carefully defended bloodline is also insinuated to be evil
in its nature.
Finally, the thing that really convinces me that the Harry Potter series is
anti-Semitic in its secret agenda is the evil Lord, known as Voldemort, but most
commonly referred to as "he who must not be named"...
That can only be a thinly disguised slander against the respectful Hebrew
practice of not speaking the name of Hashem. In the Harry Potter movies, this
"lord" with the ineffable name is evil...
Ok, so granted, I'm drifting a bit into the conspiracy theorist camp here...hahah!
But I can see the agenda to turn people against religion, the Monarchy and Jews
in particular, even if nobody else can...
russ...
Brit-Am Comment: Maybe "Gringott's Bank" is a play on "Gringo" i.e. American?
4. Food Shortages:
(a) Doomsday
Afficianado
but worth Reading
The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human
Population
http://www.naturalnews.com/023091.html
(b) Michael
Burkert:
PLAN NOW FOR THE COMING SHORTAGE OF FOOD
From: Max Rambow <irmrambow@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fwd: Food Crisis Article
PLAN NOW FOR THE COMING SHORTAGE OF FOOD
By Michael Burkert (22 Nov 07)
Extracts:
Do you remember, not too long ago when the United States and
Canada were in a dilemma over the vast national surpluses of wheat, corn, barley
and other food grains? Remember the endless photos shown on nightly news of the
vast mountains of grain? Do you remember our hand-wringing politicians worrying
about low farm prices? It seemed like it would never end. Unfortunately, it
did end. Our surpluses are no more. In fact, we have a SHORTAGE of foodstuffs
in our nation today.
Besides the vast quantities of grain, the United States also had surpluses of
butter, cheese, eggs and even meat. Our nation?s agriculture production
surpassed anyone and everyone in the entire world. The United States was envied
not only due to our ability to produce food, but our consumption of it as well.
While we Americans and Canadians were dining on porterhouse steaks, baked
potatoes, fresh baked rolls and butter, washed down with fresh cold milk or a
cup of coffee with real cream, our neighbors around the world weren't faring so
well. Even in the 1970s and 80s, the majority of the world's population went
to bed hungry at night. That is if they had a bed to go to at night.
Our nation?s economy is founded on the ability to grow and produce vast
quantities of food. Over the past century, both Canada and the United States
exported BILLIONS of tons of foodstuffs to the hungry world. Much of the food
we exported was given away as foreign aid. Much of that food has gone to our
enemies. That's correct. While the US has officially enforced an embargo
against Communist Cuba, MILLIONS of tons of rice, beans, corn and other
commodities have been GIVEN to Castro and his imprisoned nation.
The same holds true with North Korea. President Jimmy Carter opened the gates
to that enemy and sent the first of many to come shiploads of free grain and
other foods. Although food shipments to Iran were suspended during the 444 days
of humiliation (storming of the US Embassy in Tehran by Islamic "students")
imposed on both Carter and the United States, food shipments were reinstated as
a "humanitarian gesture" under the administration of President Clinton.
President Bush never suspended food shipments initiated under both the Carter
and Clinton Administrations, out of fear of criticism in the news and
entertainment media. No doubt fear of criticism in the UN weighed heavy on the
minds of Secretary of State Colin Powell and other State Department officials.
The bottom line is that neither the United States, nor Canada has the ability to
weather the famine that we face in the not too distant future. You say that
can?t happen. The US and Canada are major food producers and will never suffer
famine. Guess again!
Many factors are rapidly coming into play that will have a severe impact on our
two nations. Our national reserves of food are low. When disaster strikes our
ability to weather the storm will prove inadequate. Several factors may come
into play that will greatly diminish our ability in the US to even remain a
nation, as we know it.
THE EVER SHRINKING DOLLAR
Our national currency, the US Dollar is shrinking everyday in value. Already
Japan is buying oil from Iran and other Middle Eastern producers and using YEN
as payment. Some European nations are already paying for oil in EUROS, albeit
under the table, as the DOLLAR remains the currency in which oil is bought and
sold. Not for much longer however! The DOLLAR may well be replaced by the EURO
before the end of 2008. The weak dollar, may well be THE issue of the 2008
election cycle, right behind the war with Islam.
The fact is, there is a shortage of grain worldwide. Liberal socialist politics
is partly to blame for the shortages due to their demand to produce ethanol if
well meaning; yet misguided efforts to replace oil as our source of energy.
Oil is the engine on which our national economy operates. Without it, our
agriculture-based economy will grind to a rapid halt. While we have BILLIONS of
barrels of KNOWN OIL RESERVES in both offshore fields as well as the Alaska
National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR), Liberal Democrat politicians have successfully
blocked any and all efforts to tap those resources.
The worry over a possible oil spill is the given reason. Yet Cuba was given
vast oil drilling rights (by the Carter Administration) in the late 70?s, and
China is now developing those drilling rights on behalf of Castro. Apparently
an oil spill in the Caribbean caused by communist enemies is more palatable than
one caused by an American oil company.
The ultimate collapse of the DOLLAR will have ramifications worldwide. Not only
will energy prices soar astronomically, but the scarcity of energy for the US
and Canada, predicated by the long-standing liberal socialist agenda will
effectively grind our agriculture-based economy to a halt. While some in the
world are hopeful that the US will finally "get ours," they have no idea as to
the effect our collapse, will have on the world as a whole.
ECONOMIC CRASH AND BURN
The United States literally, feeds the world. This has been true since 1945.
Despite recent downturns in North American agriculture and the diversion of
grain to ethanol production and other non-food uses, the US continues to feed
the world. When we no longer have this ability, the world's economies will
suffer devastating setbacks.
Despite the fact that China is not our friend, China NEEDS the United States.
The Chinese economy, while buzzing along must create 25-MILLION new jobs every
year, just to keep up with the growing population. Without America as a
customer for the BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF TRADE each year, China's economy will
grind to a screeching halt as well.
The aging communist elite in China knows all too well, that their ability to
maintain control of the Chinese people is predicated on the continuing ability
to keep the masses working. That means that the factories must continue making
goods for export. They have no choice but, to hope for the continuation of the
American market as a source for their manufactured goods.
The same principle holds true with the Germans. Germany is an exporting nation
and much of what the Germans build or manufacture ends up in North America.
5. Early Vikings in Ireland preceded by
Anglo-Saxons
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENEALOGY-DNA/2008-04/1208968992
From: "Peter Langley"
Subject: [DNA] Viking slave trade in Ireland
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:43:12 +0100
The following is a brief extract, containing salient points, from an article
published in the Irish edition of the London Sunday Times. Based on a lecture
given by Linzi
Simpson director of a dig undertaken by Margaret Gowen and Company in
Dublin in 2003 and delivered to University College Dublin last week.
The bodies of four Vikings were unearthed. Isotope analysis undertaken at
Bradford University, focusing on the warriors dental remains, show that two of
them came form Scandinavia, but that the other two grew up most probably in the
Hebridean Islands off Scotland. Carbon dating showed they died about 841AD, this
is almost 100 years before it had been believed the Vikings first visited
Ireland.
The area of the dig showed it had been a large settlement with probably 3,000 to
5,000 people living there before it was cleared in 902.
In a previous dig near by in the late 1990s, the remains of a pre Viking house
was found. It was neither Irish or Viking but probably Anglo Saxon in origin
suggesting that settlers from England had already been living on the site before
the Vikings came.
At the end of her lecture, Linzi goes on:
However a darker picture is also emerging of a Dublin established on slavery.
"The common picture is of Vikings coming in search of booty and silver, but in
the case of the Dublin Vikings, their biggest enterprise was almost certainly as
slavers.
"And we're talking about raids that took 300 to 400 people at a time and then
shipped them off to be sold in other locations. The Irish people they captured
could have ended up as far afield as Russia."
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